Word: seasickness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suits have reached a depth of 300 ft. they can only work there ten minutes at a time before exhaustion sets in. Despite these difficulties, a grim circle of British warships and tenders lay to all week about the buoy that marked the grave of the #47. Boatloads of seasick reporters tossed on the grey waters of St. George's Channel waiting for news. Long after it was apparent that there would be no news, the Rodney, with half a gale still heaving her about and with seaplanes flying watch overhead, cast wreaths of white lilies on the sea, fired...
Counting "uhhs" and "ohs" the Hero's words totaled 57. Defeated, discouraged, "Red" Dolan went away, wrote home to his paper that Mrs. Lindbergh must have been seasick because she was lying down. The News carried a castigating editorial, titled "Shrinking Lindy." The honeymooners continued eastward...
Twenty-one guns were fired again by the harbor forts. The Hoovers went out to where the U. S. S. Utah lay in waiting. The harbor was not smooth. U. S. newsgatherers following by launch were thoroughly seasick. The Utah sailed for Rio de Janeiro with the Hoovers installed in admiral's quarters, the same quarters that General Pershing occupied when the Utah brought his mission home from Peru's centenary celebration...
...came. Heavy seas extinguished the fire which had gutted the engine room. Heavy seas tossed the Dornier-Napier and its passengers for the next twelve hours. They tried smoke signals which almost re-ignited the craft, sent by radio S. 0. S., false position and corrected position signals, grew seasick. All wireless resources spanning the Atlantic came into play. Twelve steamships altered or considered altering their courses for rescue purposes. In the meantime Courtney pondered the almost indefatigable jinx which has attended his flying career (TIME, July 18, 27). At length radio-operator Gilmour said he saw a ship. "Liar...
...drug will help all of the people all of the time. Mothersill's Seasick Remedy guaranteed "in every case" is sometimes efficacious; it contains, as its advertisement asserts, "no cocain;" instead it has 45 per cent chlorbutanol, a cocain substitute often used as a local anesthetic. Wise ones, when seasick, will consult a doctor...